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The ones who were gone from ESPN long before the layoffs hit have adopted an air of prescience, and Stugotz is fighting back.

Jon “Stugotz” Weiner, sidekick on ESPN’s “The Dan Le Batard Show,” ripped into a couple former co-workers and current Fox Sports 1 personalities for play-acting like they’re sports media aficionados who saw 100 layoffs coming — and then using that supposition to boost their own relevancy.

During the Monday simulcast, Le Batard took a back seat and Stugotz ripped into Colin Cowherd and Jason Whitlock two weeks after the upheaval at ESPN that left Cowherd fancying himself a visionary and Whitlock seeking a parcel of revenge.

“I really don’t care what Jason Whitlock and Colin Cowherd have to say about ESPN, after leaving ESPN,” Stugotz said, in video captured by The Big Lead. “I don’t care. The audacity of Colin Cowherd to tell everyone that he knew that this day — the bad week that ESPN had recently — he knew it was coming, and knew it was coming years ago. Colin Cowherd — get over yourself, man. I don’t even know where you are. I don’t know where to find you. I have no idea.”

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Cowherd can be found on FS1’s “The Herd,” but the point is taken: When you leave ESPN, you leave a lot of ratings behind. Cowherd had been an ESPN mouth until 2015, when he left for the rival network (an exit that was expedited by his suggesting Dominican baseball players aren’t smart).

In the wake of the ESPN shakeups, Cowherd took his pulpit as ESPN soothsayer, criticizing the deals the network made with the major sports leagues as the TV bubble was about to burst.

The mere fact that Cowherd is still prattling about his ex bothered Stugotz, but he appeared to take bigger issue with a column Whitlock wrote in the Wall Street Journal, suggesting ESPN kowtowing to a liberalism that is pressured by Deadspin is leading to its demise.

Whitlock, a former ESPN employee who was granted the keys to The Undefeated, a startup site that he termed the “Black Grantland,” was fired in 2015 after a Deadspin report revealed the chaos inside a sports and pop-culture blog that could not get off the ground.

“And Jason Whitlock — shame on you, writing articles. You had a big opportunity here. You know who blew it? You did, Whitlock,” Stugotz said. “And now you’re somewhere where I can’t find you. I can find both of you on Twitter. But here’s the thing with both these guys: I’m really not interested in what anyone who was with ESPN has to say about ESPN right now. I don’t care.

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“Colin Cowherd predicted this? He told his staff when ESPN signed its recent NBA deal that ESPN is done? Guess who’s not done, Colin Cowherd: ESPN. Guess who’s not done? This radio show. Guess who’s just getting started? Us. Guess who is done? You are. You are finished.”

For good measure, Stugotz then made it personal. He suggested Whitlock had a beef with Cowherd long before the two joined at FS1, and now is pretending like they’re pals.

“All the things that I know you’ve said about Colin Cowherd, behind his back,” Stugotz said. “You wanna know how I know you said ’em? Because you said them to me!”